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“Wait a minute, catch your breath. Washing means cleansing the brain of all the mental junk we carry around with us. For the propagandist, it is merely wiping the slate clean so that other beliefs can be written on it. It means driving out the devil to make room for Beelzebub.”
Today I caught an interesting “fallback loop” on the server: SSH won't connect, SFTP stutters, Pyrogram darts around, Telegram crawls… It turned out DPI filters are “cleaning” traffic from Russian servers — throttling Telegram and everything connected with it.
My scripts kept knocking honestly (but persistently) — and then the “network propagandists” wiped my slate clean: 🚫 some traffic was pushed into the slow lane, some was blocked, the rest was “optimized.” 👉 The only question is who they will write onto the clean slate in place of the devil. Rumor has it his name is MAX… 😉
Censorship 💭 is a tool for controlling and directing information flows, shaping people's perception and beliefs. In a modern world where information is easy to access, censorship becomes a form of governance. As in Perls's metaphor, it clears the space — but not necessarily for something better, merely for something “new.” This cleansing can be an unconscious intervention, or it can be a deliberate mechanism that constructs new narratives and the agenda.
The key question then becomes: how does censorship affect our psyche and cognitive processes? 🔍 Its influence may run deeper than it first appears. When we are deprived of the possibility of hearing alternative points of view or accessing diverse information, our thinking narrows. It is like growing a plant in a cramped pot — without room to grow, it will never reach its full potential. People, like plants, need freedom of information in order to develop critical thinking and independent judgment.
Under censorship, we need to be especially attentive to what we accept on faith and try to step beyond the frames imposed on us. 🤔 Freedom of thought is, after all, one of the fundamental aspects of self-improvement and personal growth. Let us remember that as we build the information filters in our own heads — filters that should actually be useful to us. In the end, each of us has our own slate, and what gets written on it depends on us.
Category: Humanistic Principles
Questions about this article
01How does the post connect censorship with the “clean slate” metaphor?
The author connects Fritz Perls's image of erasing previous beliefs with a personal episode of network filtering. In both cases, “cleansing” is presented not as a neutral opening of space but as an opportunity to replace one set of beliefs, routes, or rules with another.
02What technical episode prompted the post?
The author reports failures involving SSH, SFTP, Pyrogram, and Telegram on a server and attributes them to DPI filtering and traffic throttling. This is his observation and interpretation of a specific incident, not an independently verified network diagnosis.
03How does censorship affect thinking according to the author?
Restricting access to different points of view narrows the information environment and may make prescribed beliefs easier to impose. The post therefore links freedom of information with critical thinking and independent judgment.
04What practical conclusion does the post offer?
Examine what is accepted on faith, distinguish external filters from one's own information filters, and retain personal responsibility for what is written on one's metaphorical slate.